C. S. LEWIS

"Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having."

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken."

"Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity."

"The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say “My heart is broken."

"Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive."

"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."

"A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet."

"I was with book, as a woman is with child"

"Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good."

"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."

"I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him."

"If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived."

"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."

"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it."

"You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down."

"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."

"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

"Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist."

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."

"A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse."